for Keeps
A Victoria tech firm is setting out to transform
the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry
with its superpowered programming language,
SkookumScript — and it’s catching the attention
of some pretty big players.

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Conan Reis
has a big idea:
from his headquarters in Victoria, he wants to
revolutionize a global industry that generates
at least $100 billion a year and employs at
least 10 million software developers. That
industry is video gaming, and Reis and
his team of “mad scientists” at Agog Labs
have developed a programming language,
SkookumScript, that makes it much easier to
create video games, while saving time and
money and increasing creativity.
After a journey that has taken him from